You know that Three Dog Night song “Joy To The World” ?
Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
How can you tell if a fish is joyful?
I guess the question I should ask is how stoned do you have to be to be concerned if a fish is joyful?
“Hey, man, joy to the fishes.”
“Pull over, Leroy. I think I ought to drive.”
“No, really. Joy to the fishes.”
“What, you’re Vegan now? I don’t care. We’re still going to Red Lobster. Now shut up!”
“I’m tryin to tell you – joy to the fishes.”
“Just sit tight, Leroy. We’re just a few minutes from the hospital.”
Then there’s the bit about If I were the king of the world.”I
I’d be very concerned if the King Of The World were worried whether fish were joyful.
Although, to tell you the truth, it would be a vast improvement on old Wahab thugs like King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Archive of entries posted on August 2006
Friday Catblogging
Since it’s Friday, I thought I’d spread the joy of humor-free, apolitical Friday Catblogging to IMAO (aka “I-MEOW”).
Have you told me what you want? What you really, really want? Well, we’re all out of that zigga-zig-zoom. Spacemonkey ate it all. So I’m stuck with this peddling this crap.
Anyway, it’s time for Frisky the Beloved:
If you’re not sure how this absurd scene pertains to IMAO, since IMAO is famous for that “political humor” thing, it doesn’t. If you must have some semblance of politics or humor in everything you read here, just assume that Edloe is… um…
Help me out here. Make your suggestions in the comments how this scene is, in fact, a political allegory.
You can find more examples of Friday catblogging by searching a blog search engine such as Technorati for “catblogging.”
You can also find a roundup of catblogging posts at The Friday Ark, located at The Modulator blog.
Then, when the weekend is nearly over, head over to The Carnival of the Cats for more kitty goodness.
There’s also Flickr Groups called Furry Friday and Friday Catblogging.
Anybody I miss?
TODAY’S SIMPSON TRIVIA
Today’s Simpsons Trivia
(Introduction)
1) What does Homer say if he’s frustrated, wrong, or surprised?
2) (T/F) Milhouse has been seen wearing Teletubbies underwear?
3) Who tries to get Ned to participate in her infomercial when he visits Las Vegas?
4) In the Baldwin’s house, what does Homer do when Kim Bassinger is asleep?
Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.
Cartervational Poster
I’m Linking to This Because You Can’t Stop Me
Here are some photos from my honeymoon with the lovely and talented SarahK back in December. They’re of back when we were happy and in love and not the hollow husks of our former selves we are now, watching TV together in silence as we do all we can to avoid eye contact that might remind ourselves how much we now hate each other.
And there are pictures of chickens!
One Day the Sleeping Giant Shall Awake
But, until then, the old IMAO Podcasts are now available at a new URL: http://podcast.imao.us
We’ll get back to it one of these days; it was too good to leave dormant forever.
Making Spam Useful
Scott Adams has a great idea of what to do with the Social Security numbers of people who respond to spam.
Dead Terrorists – The Movie!
So what have you done today to help kill terrorists? Well, a number of people in Hollywood have put a full-page ad in the LA Times demanding all terrorists be killed. Actually, the phrase they used is “stop terrorism at all costs”, but that’s really good for Hollywood people.
Now, my question to Hollywood: Where are the terrorist-killing movies?
Isn’t it time for some big-budget action flick about some Rambo like character shooting his way into Mecca to take out a terrorist cell? I know the America public is just waiting to see a movie where terrorists die many ignominious deaths. Sure, those terrorists will try to hide behind women and children, but that won’t stop the American hero from killing them anyway since he’ll be a great shot and smart. And, when he kills them, he’ll have some humorous quip such as, “You dead now, terrorist!”
And such a movie is important. It would show people that killing terrorists is both necessary and fun, maybe getting more people to join the side in support of dead terrorists.
It’s almost a crime we haven’t had such a movie by now. Why won’t Hollywood give us what we want? We want to watch terrorists get what’s coming to them, but instead they make movies about gay cowboys.
Maybe they just haven’t had a good script yet. That’s hard to believe, since such a movie would write itself (at the beginning of each scene there are terrorists, at the end of each scene there are only dead terrorists; the middle just as to be changed up a little for each one). I know how to type and stuff, so I’ll write the script if given a good enough advance.
Oh! I just thought of a neat scene! One terrorist will start yelling, “Allah ackbar!” but, right after shouting, “Allah…”, the terrorists will go into an extended “Ack!” as he finds himself shot through the mouth by our hero, Frank J. This movie will be so cool! All you Hollywood execs reading this can start making me offers now.
Planets
The International Astronomical Union is currently working on a final definition of what a planet is so that the debate over whether Pluto is a planet or not will finally end and astronomers can finally tilt their telescopes back at the open bathroom window of their hot next door neighbor.
Thanks to some skillful detective work involving one of our contributors disguising himself as a janitor, IMAO has received a patrial list of the IAU’s list of planets and non-planets… (EDITORS: MARK AS EXLUSIVE TO IMAO)
Earth: Planet
Mars: Planet
Mars (the candy bar): Not A Planet
Planet Hollywood: Not A Planet
Jupiter: Planet
Venus: Planet
Public Enemy’s “Fear Of A Black Planet” album: Not A Planet
Venus Williams: Not A Planet
Pluto: Planet
Animal Planet Channel: Not A Planet
Saturn: Planet
Saturn (the car company): Not A Planet
Mercury: (see Saturn)
The Daily Planet: Not A Planet (or a real newspaper)
Neptune: Planet
On the Virtues of Killing Children
You know how the trolls (and guys with green helmets) try to counter every argument with pictures of dead children? Well, Grim at Blackfive has a post which should make those people’s heads explode: He’s arguing for killing children! Seriously!
Anyway, it’s sort of Nuke the Moon™ argument: violence produces peace while pacifism produces violence. Except Grim is arguing that, by worrying about killing children, more children die.
Well, one thing is for certain: War is not a pretty thing.
UPDATE: Here’s an example of lefties hyperventilating over this one.
Shorter tbogg: Instead of dealing with the argument, I reduce everything into what I believe to be a witty strawman as fodder for the muckadoos who read me.
Just look above, dingus, I paraphrased Grim’s argument pretty accurately; it’s really not that hard.
Carnival Of Comedy is up at Radioactive Liberty
Despite a bout with bad math, Radioactive Liberty has Carnival of Comedy #68. Thanks for to Michael for a Fitch’n Carnival.
TTYL IMHO. BRB.
Just Precious
Today’s Simpsons Trivia
1) In “Treehouse of Horror V”, what does Homer turn into a time machine?
2) In “Lisa’s Rival”, Ralph’s prize-winning diorama is composed of what?
3) Diorama-Rama is Principal Skinner’s favorite school event next to what?
4) In “Homer Goes to College”, Burns tells the government inspection team that the power plant makes what?
Official Trivia Card answers in the comments tomorrow.
News Round Up – Wednesday
Welcome,
I’m RightWingDuck, and I’m here to share the news.
Former President Ford has been admitted to the Mayo clinic. Nobody knows why, really. None of Ford’s people are sharing any information. Reporters are a bit miffed I tell you. They’re not used to dealing with former presidents who can keep their mouths shut.
Reporters asked President Bush about how he felt about Mr. Ford being admitted to the Mayo clinic. He responded: “I’ve long believed in the healing capabilities of Mayo — and Mustard.”
Here in California the Governator is in trouble. Really. Local Muslim groups were offended that he went to some pro-Israel rallies. He never attended any of the Muslim events.
The bad news for Arnold? They’re so mad that they’re threatening to help his opponent Phil Angelides.
The strange part is they’re offering to give him 1,000 cell phones.
I’m sure you’ve heard about that. Three kids were busted with over 1,000 cell phones in their van. I guess that makes giving out your phone number much easier.
Kid: “Yeah. Call me, dude. My number is 555 — um — just dial any four numbers after 555, I’ll get the call.”
It’s a great idea. Really. Until the phone rings.
Dell is in the news lately. It seems that certain laptop models have batteries that catch on fire. Dell hasn’t seen anything like this since they introduced their New Jersey Edition which not only caught on fire but also featured a lack of eyewitnesses. Oddly, it was the only laptop they offered that came with insurance.
Wal-Mart is reporting that they will have lower earnings. This is understandable. Labor is getting harder to find and more expensive now that many of their overseas employees are going back to Kindergarten.
Also, for some reason, sales are down for cell phones.
Some Mexican fishermen were found after having been missing for 9 months and presumed dead. Isn’t that awesome?
They survived by drinking rain water and eating birds and fish.
The good news is that they were found by some Taiwanese fisherman and are doing well. The bad news is that they have a touch of the bird flu.
Wanna hear something really funny? When the Taiwanese workers came up on deck and saw the three Mexicans they yelled, “Damn, where did all these illegals come from?”
The skies aren’t any safer than the water, believe me.
A United Airlines flight had an incident where a woman freaked out. Turns out she had claustrophobia. That’s what you need on a flight, somebody who desperately needs to get out.
All these airline restrictions are wild. It’s a stressful time to fly. People wanting to blow up airplanes, freaked out passengers, crazy “youths” trying to sneak in liquid explosives.
I’m not saying that restrictions on flights are tight, but just the other day they caught an airline pilot sneaking in some powdered Jack Daniels.
In Arizona, they have a brand new state of the art football field. The field is on a tray and it retracts in and out of the stadium so that the grass can get rain and sunshine.
The field takes 1 hour to retract into the building. One hour to move 100 yards?
NFL officials say this is the first time the field covers more ground than the football team.
Until Tomorrow…
Newly Discovered – Hezbollah Checklist!
Charles Johnson, over at Little Green Footballs has a great post on one of the AP Reporters and his blog.
This reminds me – IMAO was able to use one of its many Fake But Accurate news sources to secure a key Hezbollah document.
Check this out.

